Silvia Beck is a visual artist based in Berlin.

She studied fine arts and philosophy, as well as german language and literature at the University of Mainz. Since 1989 she lives and works in Berlin. She was honored with the Advancement Award of Rhineland-Palatinate and got working grants and scholarships from Berlin Senate Administration for Culture and the Berlin Cultural Endowment Foundation. 2015 she was Artist-in-Residence at Q21 International, MuseumsQuartier Vienna. She holds a professorship at Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld.

Early on she was interested in interdisciplinary exchange between visual and performative arts and technologies by exploring new (digital) approaches to artistic expression. She works with a variety of media – such as drawing, photography and text, performance, video and sound. Her multifaceted practice always engages with the exhibition space in the form of site specific configurations and arrangements.

Silvia Beck’s various exhibitions, lectures, and books primarily fall within long-term work cycles that are interconnected: These cycles range the relationship between neurosciences, surveillance and control (Brain User’s Evolution, Complicity Report) to an investigation of globalization, media realities and identity (global loop, Management of Visions, Parallel Systems) and finally to the questioning of art and artistic role models in a transitional society (Viola Kamp Super Label, Komplex 200X).